@no_way_this_is_real_: Charles Ball described his rations: a peck of corn per week, meat once a week — less when bacon ran out. That was the baseline. George Washington's own enslaved overseer reported workers "without a mouthful for a day, and sometimes two days." And that was before any punishment. Researchers found that enslavers deliberately kept food scarce so withholding it carried maximum power. Stealing food to eat was punishable. Withholding it was legal. WPA narratives describe enslaved people eating rats and possums during punishment periods. Collective food cuts punished entire communities for one person's infraction — turning hunger into a surveillance system enforced by the people suffering it. No whip. No mark. No noise. #BlackHistory #SlaveryInAmerica #AmericanHistory #HiddenHistory #HistoryYouShouldKnow

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